Date: 1/2/26 8:08 am From: June Howard <jmhoward...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
Great idea. I’d like to join too.
June Howard
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> Is there any interest in staring a bird/nature book club? It would be nice to share our readings with other birders.
> April
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Date: 1/1/26 8:18 am From: Diana Newman <dianarnewman...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
I am interested.
Diana Newman
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in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir
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> How about "Birds that Audubon Missed" by Kenn Kaufman?
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> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM April Campbell <adc14...> wrote:
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>> Great! Let’s put together a list of titles we’d like to and ideas on
>> logistics. Should be fun!
>>
>>
>> On Dec 31, 2025, at 1:25 PM, sdseeger <sdseeger...> wrote:
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>> I'm interested as well. Thanks for the idea April!
>>
>> Steven Seeger
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>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM len.sander <len.sander...> wrote:
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>>> Sounds interesting. Len Sander
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>>> > On Dec 31, 2025, at 12:50 PM, Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
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>>> > Me, too
>>> >
>>> > Sent from my iPhone
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>>> >> On Dec 31, 2025, at 10:35 AM, Su Clift <coffeebeansu...>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I would participate
>>> >> Su in Adrian
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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Date: 12/31/25 12:09 pm From: Joann Green <joanngreen628...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
Here are books relating to birds that I have read and enjoyed:
Birding to Change the World - A Memoir by Trish O Kane. This is the best
book I read in awhile.
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Return to the Sky - The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets
Helped Restore the Bald Eagle by Tina Morris
Falcon Thief - A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery and the Hunt for the
Perfect Bird by Joshua Hamm
Feather Brained by Bob Tarte
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Owls of the Eastern Ice - A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
by Jonathan Slaght
Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper
Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss
A Wing and a Prayer - The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds by Anders and
Beverly Gyllenhaal
Lastly, just for fun and comic relief, The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of
North America by Matt Kracht
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Date: 12/31/25 11:29 am From: Kyle Grazier <kgrazier...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
April, I would love to participate in a birders book club!
Kyle Grazier (she)
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Date: 12/31/25 11:19 am From: Leonard Sander <lsander...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
How about "Birds that Audubon Missed" by Kenn Kaufman?
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM April Campbell <adc14...> wrote:
> Great! Let’s put together a list of titles we’d like to and ideas on
> logistics. Should be fun!
>
>
> On Dec 31, 2025, at 1:25 PM, sdseeger <sdseeger...> wrote:
>
> I'm interested as well. Thanks for the idea April!
>
> Steven Seeger
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM len.sander <len.sander...> wrote:
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>> Sounds interesting. Len Sander
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> > On Dec 31, 2025, at 12:50 PM, Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
>> >
>> > Me, too
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
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>> >> On Dec 31, 2025, at 10:35 AM, Su Clift <coffeebeansu...> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I would participate
>> >> Su in Adrian
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>> On Dec 31, 2025, at 9:59 AM, 'April Campbell' via Birders <
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Date: 12/31/25 10:15 am From: len.sander <len.sander...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
Sounds interesting. Len Sander
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> Me, too
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>> I would participate
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>>>> On Dec 31, 2025, at 9:59 AM, 'April Campbell' via Birders <birders...> wrote:
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>>> April
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Date: 12/31/25 9:50 am From: Mag Tait <magtait1...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
Me, too
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> On Dec 31, 2025, at 10:35 AM, Su Clift <coffeebeansu...> wrote:
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> I would participate
> Su in Adrian
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>> April
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Date: 12/31/25 8:43 am From: Timothy McKay <tamckay...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
Thanks for making this suggestion April! I've always wanted to participate
in a birding/nature book group, and would be happy to join in.
Cheers,
Tim McKay
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Date: 12/31/25 7:35 am From: Su Clift <coffeebeansu...> Subject: Re: [birders] Book Club
I would participate Su in Adrian
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Date: 12/31/25 6:59 am From: 'April Campbell' via Birders <birders...> Subject: [birders] Book Club
Is there any interest in staring a bird/nature book club? It would be nice to share our readings with other birders. April
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Date: 12/27/25 5:49 pm From: Fred Kaluza <fredkaluza...> Subject: Re: [birders] Two returning American Tree Sparrows
If not breeding partners…close traveling companions for sure! Maybe even nest-mates?
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Subject: [birders] Two returning American Tree Sparrows
Birders,
Since 2004, I have been banding birds in my tiny (0.15 acre) suburban/urban yard in Inkster between October and March to study the population dynamics and site fidelity of "my" birds. I frequently get Dark-eyed Juncos returning in subsequent winters, and have also had smaller numbers of American Tree Sparrows returning (numbers have been low the past few years). This morning I recaptured two American Tree Sparrows at the same time, and fairly close to each other, that were both captured and banded (as adults) on January 28th, 2025, again captured at the same time and fairly close to each other. It is tempting to think this might be a mated pair, but in winter their sexes cannot be determined with much confidence. And, like most songbirds, they are not known to mate for life but instead will mate with different partners each year. Still, I thought it was interesting enough to share.
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Date: 12/27/25 3:18 pm From: Allen Chartier <amazilia3...> Subject: [birders] Two returning American Tree Sparrows
Birders,
Since 2004, I have been banding birds in my tiny (0.15 acre) suburban/urban yard in Inkster between October and March to study the population dynamics and site fidelity of "my" birds. I frequently get Dark-eyed Juncos returning in subsequent winters, and have also had smaller numbers of American Tree Sparrows returning (numbers have been low the past few years). This morning I recaptured two American Tree Sparrows at the same time, and fairly close to each other, that were both captured and banded (as adults) on January 28th, 2025, again captured at the same time and fairly close to each other. It is tempting to think this might be a mated pair, but in winter their sexes cannot be determined with much confidence. And, like most songbirds, they are not known to mate for life but instead will mate with different partners each year. Still, I thought it was interesting enough to share.
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Date: 12/23/25 12:05 pm From: Bill Moran <billdhg...> Subject: [birders] Sunny day walk
A short walk on the Matthaei path today heard some Blue Jays, saw a couple of squirrels and chipmunks. A small mixed flock of Downy Woodpeckers and White Nuthatches working the same trees. Highlights were a dozen American Robins and a pair of Bluebirds! Felt good to get outside after fighting a cold for a few days.
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Date: 12/23/25 5:40 am From: Catherine Carroll <kiwibisc...> Subject: Re: [birders] Year-end Roundup from Quebec
Agree! Great video Fred. Thanks so much for posting this and so glad I
took the time to watch.
Cathy
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> Time to get a glass of wine and your favorite furry friend (or just a cozy
> quilt or blanket) and catch up on the guy with the property in Canada.
> Good video, nice music, educational and entertaining.
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> Happy holidays to all my birding and amateur (and professional) naturalist
> friends. Enjoy. Fred in Port Huron
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> https://youtu.be/j78UZoF0yQI?si=PblzA2ij2DZUxv5N >
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Date: 12/23/25 5:33 am From: AT&T Email <morana2...> Subject: Re: [birders] Year-end Roundup from Quebec
Very cool. Thanks for the link. My yard is pretty active, but nothing like this!
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM, Fred Kaluza<fredkaluza...> wrote: Time to get a glass of wine and your favorite furry friend (or just a cozy quilt or blanket) and catch up on the guy with the property in Canada. Good video, nice music, educational and entertaining.
Happy holidays to all my birding and amateur (and professional) naturalist friends. Enjoy. Fred in Port Huron
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Date: 12/22/25 7:57 pm From: Fred Kaluza <fredkaluza...> Subject: [birders] Year-end Roundup from Quebec
Time to get a glass of wine and your favorite furry friend (or just a cozy quilt or blanket) and catch up on the guy with the property in Canada. Good video, nice music, educational and entertaining.
Happy holidays to all my birding and amateur (and professional) naturalist friends. Enjoy. Fred in Port Huron
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Date: 12/12/25 6:01 am From: Fred Kaluza <fredkaluza...> Subject: Re: [birders] Brown Creeper
Actually I have to apologize Dody. That message kind of slipped-out without any context. I have a new tablet and it’s going to take a lot of getting used to. I had composed a nice message about how our municiple administrators would rather raze “undeveloped” public property and pave it over in hopes of attracting more businesses and tax revenue, than put a value on the last vestiges of the natural world in urban spaces. In the battle being fought over “shovel-ready” developments for data-centers. I have yet to hear from anyone who can tell me how my life will get better because of them. In fact I’d like them to tell me what I need to change in my life to ensure I am not part driving the need for them. Meanwhile, our wildlife does what it can with what it has left. On a related note…has anyone seen any Tree Sparrows?
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Subject: Re: [birders] Brown Creeper
Thank you, Fred. I’ve seen shorter versions of this same sort of thing, but this really says it all.
Dody
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Date: 12/9/25 7:57 am From: 'April Campbell' via Birders <birders...> Subject: Re: [birders] Brown Creeper
I had two regulars for several years until Comcast illegally cut the woods down near my home. Ann Arbor didn’t care.
> On Dec 5, 2025, at 7:15 PM, Eve Wilson <evew...> wrote:
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> Up north in Kewadin on Traverse Bay there are lots of creepers. I see them regularly and they always make me happy because they’re so rare down in Ann Arbor 💕
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>> On Dec 5, 2025, at 6:48 PM, Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I’m sure you were right. I had a wild cherry tree right outside my kitchen window, which is where I saw the Brown Creepers when I saw them in my yard. It died, was topped and lost all its bark and was used for years as a beautiful support for the cable that all the birdfeeders hung on. It finally fell over this fall. It was the tree I had all my birdfeeders hanging off of and my heart was broken, but it’s turned into a Centerpiece of the yard with animals still feeding off of it. In its place I have a pole which is serviceable but not pretty and I’m not going to see any Creepers on it, I am sure.
>> Here is a not very great spot of my backyard feeding space.
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>> > On Dec 5, 2025, at 6:38 PM, Dody Wyman <dody...> wrote:
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>> > Mag - for me it’s looking at the right tree at the right time and even that doesn’t happen all that often. We have several quite large trees very near the house, and I think that helps.
>> >
>> > I’d have to look back at my records, but they’ve been around here for many years….. I just don’t notice them unless it’s the right time and right tree. Hope you get to see one this winter… they are cool
>> >
>> > Dody
>> >
>> > On Dec 5, 2025, at 5:59 PM, Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
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>> > I have not seen one here in Michigan in years! I see and hear them in Washington when I’m there. I will keep my eyes open.
>> >
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>> >> On Dec 5, 2025, at 5:15 PM, Dody Wyman <dody...> wrote:
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>> >> I watched one climb up the side of one of our trees this AM. Don’t see them very often!
>> >>
>> >> Dody
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Date: 12/9/25 7:47 am From: Eve Wilson <evew...> Subject: Re: [birders] Brown Creeper
Up north in Kewadin on Traverse Bay there are lots of creepers. I see them regularly and they always make me happy because they’re so rare down in Ann Arbor 💕
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On Dec 5, 2025, at 6:48 PM, Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
I’m sure you were right. I had a wild cherry tree right outside my kitchen window, which is where I saw the Brown Creepers when I saw them in my yard. It died, was topped and lost all its bark and was used for years as a beautiful support for the cable that all the birdfeeders hung on. It finally fell over this fall. It was the tree I had all my birdfeeders hanging off of and my heart was broken, but it’s turned into a Centerpiece of the yard with animals still feeding off of it. In its place I have a pole which is serviceable but not pretty and I’m not going to see any Creepers on it, I am sure.
Here is a not very great spot of my backyard feeding space.
> On Dec 5, 2025, at 6:38 PM, Dody Wyman <dody...> wrote:
>
> Mag - for me it’s looking at the right tree at the right time and even that doesn’t happen all that often. We have several quite large trees very near the house, and I think that helps.
>
> I’d have to look back at my records, but they’ve been around here for many years….. I just don’t notice them unless it’s the right time and right tree. Hope you get to see one this winter… they are cool
>
> Dody
>
> On Dec 5, 2025, at 5:59 PM, Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
>
> I have not seen one here in Michigan in years! I see and hear them in Washington when I’m there. I will keep my eyes open.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 5, 2025, at 5:15 PM, Dody Wyman <dody...> wrote:
>>
>> I watched one climb up the side of one of our trees this AM. Don’t see them very often!
>>
>> Dody
>> Manchester area
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Date: 12/8/25 10:08 am From: Patricia Burden <tallerpat526...> Subject: [birders] Brown Creepers
I have several Brown Creepers in my yard and coming to my suet and to peanut butter so I will tell you what works for me. First learn their call. They do call all winter. I have lots of trees and this helps me locate them. Make sure a suet feeder is on the side of a tree - I have never seen a creeper on any of the free hanging suet feeders. The ones in my yard land lower than the feeder and work up the tree until they get to it unlike nuthatches that fly right to the feeder. If you can't do either, get a large branch,maybe 4-5 inches in diameter and several feet in length (ours is about 5' long). We used a hole saw to cut out holes about 1 1/4 inches wide - don't go all the way through the branch; make them no more than an inch deep. We put a heavy duty hook in one end and it hangs down from the 2x4 most of our feeders hang from. Then fill the holes with suet or peanut butter. It took a while for the Creepers to acclimate themselves to the branch, but they do enjoy the peanut butter. Can you tell they are one of my favorite winter birds? Pat Burden Melvin & Yale, MI
